<p>I’ve heard from some, word roots are good. Do you find them good. Do you know where I can get a good list of roots. Could anyone give me a few good examples of the postive/negative strategy in use? Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah those latin & greek roots really help me figure out the meanings. for example, if the world is evoke, i know from roots that
e = out, towards outward-direction.
vok = call
so i know that the word means to call forth.</p>
<p>you can look in barron’s sat book or gruber’s & you’ll find a list there.</p>
<p>here’s a sentence:
regretfully, team captain marc started to ___ the young players as soon as basketball practice ended.
from the sentence, you can conclude that the blank is negative because the words around it (that describe it) are negative, such as REGRETFULLY.</p>
<p>or
To the author’s delight, the controversial book received praise and __ from the major critics.
keywords: DELIGHT, PRAISE
and since the blank comes after an “and”, you know that the blank has to be a synonym of praise, which is a positive word.</p>
<p>i’dwritemorebuti’msleepy:)</p>
<p>angiee- can these roots, suffixes and prefixes be used for almost EVERY word in the dictionary?</p>
<p>remember that there are words in the english language that have roots in them, but they are not really roots. For some reason an example does not come to mind, but they exist.</p>
<p>I don’t know how much it will help. Theworld is right, it wont help with every word; however, if you have taken a couple years of Latin, it can really help. Obviously, certain people will have an easier time than others. I had a French teacher who would give you the meaning of English words based on her knowledge of Greek, Latin, and French, but that was partly because of the way she tackles problems. It isn’t really something you can train yourself to do.</p>